at 7.47p EDT on 2004 March 07 Sunday Philip Bays said: > Just to clarify. It is not the applet loading that I am concerned > about. If I load a molecule, the applet loads initially. If I then > call for another molecule, the applet is already loaded and should not > reload via my javascript. The only thing that should happen is a new > molecule appears in the applet. That part is what seems to have > slowed down. >
my mistake again :-) I did not test this particular operation. I can do it but not immediately; I don't have such a page set up yet. regards, :tim -- timothy driscoll molvisions - molecular graphics & visualization <http://www.molvisions.com/> usa:north carolina:wake forest > > On Mar 7, 2004, at 7:28 PM, Miguel Howard wrote: > > >> you are correct; pre6 is slower to load compared to pre5. Miguel > >> changed the popupMenu so that it loads when the applet is first > >> instantiated, instead of when the menu is first clicked. this was to > >> remove an awkward 2-3 second delay between right-click and menu > >> appearance. > > > > It is true that the popupMenu is loaded initially, but that should be > > running as a background task that does not add any time ... at least > > that > > is the theory. > > > >> to me, it is a fair trade off - but here are my numbers, so... > >> > >> > >> pre6 to load 1d66.pdb: > >> 1.72 sec (n=5) > >> > >> pre5 to load 1d66.pdb: > >> 0.96 sec (n=5) > > > > Tim, can you rerun a couple of timing tests with pre6 ... with vs. > > without > > the popup menu, in order to quantify what kind of impact this is > > having? > > > > Separately, I have another theory. I changed the code in pre6 to > > explicitly force a garbage collection as soon as the model is loaded. > > This > > is because we are now consuming less memory, and I wanted to get > > confirmation. > > > > This is probably the source of *some* of the delay. > > > > Tim, if you are up to it, you can run another little test. > > JmolViewer.java > > lines 845 & 846 call System.gc() and System.finalize(). Comment out > > those > > lines and see what kinds of times you get. > > > > > > Thanks, > > Miguel > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > > _______________________________________________ > > Jmol-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users > > > > > J. Philip Bays > Professor of Chemistry > Science Hall 158 > Saint Mary's College > Notre Dame IN 46556 > (574) 284-4663 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
